One of the few solid-state disk size 2.5-inch, reaching a volume of TB has become the model Mercury Electra MAX 3G, which is now presented by Other World Computing (OWC). The memory device combines two controllers SandForce SF-2181, united in an array of RAID, and chip asynchronous NAND-memory total volume of 1024 GB (894 GB user available after formatting).
Communication between controllers is made by the chip Silicon Image SteelVine RAID. Curiously, the speed is limited to SATA hard drives with 3Gb / s. The device can read and write sequential blocks of data at a speed of 254 MB / s and 250 Mb / s, respectively, read and write speeds up to 252 MB / s and 223 Mb / s random blocks , respectively.
However, the main advantage of Mercury Electra MAX 3G can be considered the price. The drive is offered for $ 1,300 (or $ 1.45 per gigabytes of storage).